The Five Freedoms Forum (FFF) was a group of anti-

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organizations made up of mostly white people. It was launched in

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on 18 March 1987. The name of the group was based on five freedoms: "freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom from discrimination, freedom of speech and association and freedom of conscience." Several organizations fell under the umbrella of the Five Freedoms Forum including

NUSAS The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was an important force for liberalism and later Political radicalism, radicalism in South African people, South African student Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid politics. Its mott ...

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, Jodac, the Catholic Church Commission for Justice and Peace, Concerned Social Workers, Jews for Social Justice and the Detainees' Parents Support Committee. The Five Freedoms Forum organized a two-day conference of 800 delegates in September 1987, which was the first "nationwide meeting of South African white groups opposed to apartheid." In 1989, an anti-apartheid campaigner, David Webster, who was white and involved with the Five Freedoms Forum, was assassinated.

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The Five Freedoms Forum (FFF) Collection
Anti-Apartheid organisations 1987 establishments in South Africa {{Authority control